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Photograph shows Mammoth Company at Quartz Hill, #35, in Kennett, California. Kennett is now under Shasta Lake. Mammoth Company at Quartz Hill, a mine of solid quartz. The Glory Hole - Quartz Hill Mine furnished quartz for two smelters, Keswick & Mammoth Smelters. [Glory Hole name of scar on hillside which used to be Mountain of Quartz]. Return to Catherine Hiatt c/o Garth. [Quartz hill Mine originally mined gold. After Keswick & Kennett began growing they used the pure white quartz at Quartz Hill to provide the flux for their smelters].
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